Taylor Swift followers are speculating that she is getting ready to announce her new album in an look on Travis Kelce’s podcast this week.
Kelce, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish and the boyfriend of Swift, co-hosts the New Heights podcast together with his brother Jason, and on Monday (August 11), they posted a teaser of their subsequent episode.
“We’re coming again early for a particular episode with a VERY particular visitor,” they wrote. The accompanying picture confirmed the brothers alongside a silhouette that would match Swift, with Jason additionally carrying a Swift t-shirt.
The podcast will drop at 7pm ET on Wednesday, August 13 – and lots of Swifties have jumped on the truth that 13 is extensively recognized to be Swift’s fortunate quantity.
92percenters, we’re coming again early for a particular episode with a VERY particular visitor
New episode Wednesday 7PM ET pic.twitter.com/dJW2KdDeFP
— New Heights (@newheightshow) August 11, 2025
Followers suppose Taylor Swift might announce #TS12 on Travis & Jason Kelce’s podcast.
Each the teaser background picture & at this time’s Taylor Nation publish trace on the coloration orange. pic.twitter.com/BWUIPCPdgq
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 11, 2025
Sharp-eyed followers have additionally famous that the background to the promo picture for the podcast is orange, and a publish from Taylor Nation shortly afterwards confirmed a montage of photos of Swift carrying the identical color when she teased, “See you subsequent period”. The Taylor Nation publish additionally got here precisely 12 minutes after the podcast tease, which some consider is a reference to Swift’s new album, which shall be her twelfth.
🚨 Taylor Nation posted “See you subsequent period…” with 12 outfits of Taylor in orange ONLY – 12 minutes after @newheightshow promo’d for his or her subsequent present on AUGUST 13, additionally with an orange background and Jason Kelce carrying a “Midnights” t-shirt, with a well-known silhouette 👀 TS12? 🧡 pic.twitter.com/zzKGqOPmWX
— Taylor Swift Updates (@SwiftNYC) August 11, 2025
See additional hypothesis beneath:
🚨| This appears to be the image from the thumbnail!!! pic.twitter.com/h2ezGWfLzT
— Taylor Swift Edits (@TSwiftEdits_13) August 11, 2025
the idea of one other taylor swift fall album with the identical vibes as crimson however as a substitute all a couple of real love as a substitute of a real heartbreak………. pic.twitter.com/z0EEgEoJrV
— mirrorball 🪩 (@penthouseheart) August 11, 2025
The idea of us listening to Taylor discuss for a full hour straight. pic.twitter.com/1157cJa5lW
— Taylor Swift Division ❤️🔥 (@TaylorSwiftDept) August 11, 2025
🚨| Followers speculate that Sabrina Carpenter could also be featured on TS12, as she seems in one of many photographs Taylor Nation shared concerning the subsequent period! pic.twitter.com/maRx57z85f
— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSUpdating) August 11, 2025
🚨| Taylor Swift’s label, Republic Information, simply appreciated New Top’s newest Instagram publish about their particular visitor!!!! pic.twitter.com/1DvW4MixJD
— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSUpdating) August 11, 2025
👀| Followers hypothesis that the glitter used on New Heights’ teaser is from Taylor Swift’s masters letter.
— Might it even be used on the album cowl? pic.twitter.com/0WAPlFGi4R
— The Taylor Swift Updates (@theTSupdates) August 11, 2025
Hypothesis across the new album picked up in Could when Swift revealed that she now had management over her total again catalogue of music after shopping for again her last masters from Shamrock Holdings.
Followers took observe of the road, “all of the instances I used to be thiiiiiiiiiiiis shut, reaching out for it, just for it to fall by means of”, seizing on the very fact she used 12 “i’s”, which they hoped signalled a comply with as much as The Tortured Poets Division, her eleventh studio file.
Swift has by no means appeared on Kelce’s podcast, regardless of the couple being in a relationship because the summer season of 2023.
Kelce has joined Swift on stage as soon as – on the ‘Tortured Poets Division’ section of one in every of her Wembley Stadium exhibits in June 2024, Kelce lifted her off her toes whereas dressed as one in every of her common backing dancers. As he positioned her on her seat, and shook her awake, he dusted her off and bought Swift able to carry out ‘I Can Do It With A Damaged Coronary heart’.
Swift has attended the final two Tremendous Bowls to help Kelce, serving to the 2024 sport change into the most-watched broadcast in US TV historical past because the 1969 moon touchdown.
In a three-star assessment of ‘The Tortured Poets Division’, NME wrote: “Swift appears to be in tireless pursuit for superstardom, but the unfavourable public opinion it may possibly include irks her, and it’s a drained theme now plaguing her discography and leaving little room for the poignant lyrical observations she excels at. It’s why the pitfalls that mire her eleventh studio album are all of the extra disappointing — she’s confirmed time and time once more she will be able to do higher.”
